314 J.P. Lacaita on Earthquakes in Southern Italy. 
out of 9000; Pertosa, 218 out of 1100; Sassano, 185 out of 
8600; Montesano, 420 out of 4800, &c. Leaving the valley of 
Diano, and proceeding northwards to the head of the vallley 
of the Sele, will be found Brienza, Calvello, St. Angelo Le 
Fratte, Picerno, Tito, Potenza, the -capital of Basilicata, etc., 
with most of their houses and public buildings ruined, and 
many of their inhabitants killed. At Tito, in particular, more 
than 800 out of 4939 inhabitants were crushed to death, and 
sanello, Sant’ Arcangelo, Castelsaraceno, and numerous other 
towns and villages, most of the houses thrown down, and 
many inhabitants killed. 
But the effects of this terrific earthquake extended far beyond 
‘the large era that has just been noticed. The two shocks of the 
16th were felt, with various degrees of intensity, as far as the 
town of Reggio in Calabria on the south, Brindisi on the Adri- 
atic, on the east, Vasto, also on the Adriatic, on the north, and 
Terracina on the west. Within these limits many towns had 
their buildings rent. At Canosa, 15 houses were thrown down, 
155 more rendered uninhabitable, and 5 persons were kill 
At Melfi and Barile, there were three deaths. In the neighbor- 
hood of Bella, a town which stands half way between Potenza 
and Melfi, a tract of about 600 acres was split in different direc- 
tions, and surrounded with a chasm 15 feet deep, and about as 
wide. At Salerno, many public buildings were injured, and 4 
persons killed. Even at Tramonti, near Amalfi, there were two 
deaths; and at Naples, the inhabitants were so greatly alarmed 
by the violence of the shocks, as to spend in the open air all the 
night of the 16th of December. 
On the whole, by this terrific earthquake, at least 22,000 
human beings, on a most moderate calculation, were destroyed 
in a few seconds. Many no doubt would have been saved had 
it been possible by active steps to dig them out immediately. 
his will account for the comparatively very small number ©! 
wounded, in all about 4000. 2 
rom the above data it will be seen that in the course of 72 
years, from 1783 to 1857, the kingdom of Naples lost at least 
111,000 inhabitants, by the effects of earthquakes, or more than 
1500 per year, out of an average population of six millions! 
Several touching anecdotes were told in the course of the nar- 
rative. In 1783, Eloisa Basili, a beautiful girl of 16, was buried 
under the ruins with a child in her arms, who died on the fourth 
